According to Gaza’s health ministry, a series of airstrikes in Rafah, close to the Egyptian border, on Wednesday resulted in at least 12 fatalities and numerous injuries.
AFP correspondents witnessed more than 10 airstrikes that hit several houses near the frontier.
“When a house and a mosque were targeted hundreds of meters from Kuwaiti hospital, twelve martyrs and dozens of wounded, including women and children, were recovered from under the rubble,” the ministry said in a statement.
AFP video footage showed a thick plume of smoke and a blaze of fire rising amid massive explosions that rocked the border area.
